MISSION & GOALS

Founded in 2005  by   A Rwandan Genocide  Orphan  Survivor Marie Claudine MUKAMABANO, her  way to give Thanks and  Fulfill her promise she made  to Almighty God  during the genocide in Rwanda as teenage girl who was between death and Life .and witnessed many people being killed in front of her eyes.

She made commitment that if God protect her life , she will help Orphans.

Because of her Promise to God, our Mission is    TO HEAL   &   EMPOWER  RWANDAN ORPHANS  !

WHY DO I EXIST?/KUKI NDIHO RWANDA ORPHANS SUPPORT PROJECT is a  Charitable  organization, Humanitarian efforts for our Children, dedicated to education, financial, physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual healing and the well being of Rwandan orphans affected by  genocide & HIV/AIDS

Our Vision & Goal is to provide a loving and safe home, to help educate some of the million plus Rwandan orphans and victims. They are still struggling to overcome the trauma of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 and War.

The Kuki Ndiho “Why Do I Exist?” Rwandan Orphans  Support Project Foundation Helping Rwandans and the World to Heal
Kigali, Rwanda, Africa and USA

“For children like us who live in child-headed households, when we have no parents, we live under very difficult conditions; life is very hard and there are times when we are actually even starving.” Umutesi

The project’s current goals  and Mission : are to find sponsors and pen – pals  who can  support genocide orphans both financially and emotionally.

Other goals include assisting widowers of HIV/AIDS  victims,helping Rwandan women, fighting against rural exodus,promoting education,aiding youth employment,promoting Rwandan artists and culture through tourism,and facilitating inter cultural

PROJECT 1
Kuki Ndiho Orphanages

Multi-site, multi-use Housing, Health and Education Centers

500 orphans, built sustainably, self-sufficient, renewable energy powered complete with community organic vegetable and herb gardens, various tech workshops, libraries, & artist studios created as architectural competitions by participating universities.

PROJECT 2
The Kuki Ndiho Healing Arts Education Center

• Art Therapy Clinic
• Art Gallery
• Lecture Halls
• Computer & Multimedia Center
• Libraries
• Administrative Center for the orphanages
• Printing Press
• Events for Public
• Monthly Art Shows
• Film Series

PROJECT 3
MABANO Rainmaker Ujamaa Memorial

• Genocide Awareness Memorial project that will represent architecturally a sequence of structures depicting the tragedies in Central Africa: Rwanda, Congo, Burundi and Uganda.
• Some central space should be reserved for congregation purposes including places for music, dancing & rainmaking.
• Involves an aquifer landscape architecture design that will flow throughout outdoor memorial site, water to wash tears and blood.
• Contain a small building to house an informational center that will also include images and info from any of the nearby 200 other memorial sites in Rwanda and neighboring regions.
• Memorial should be participatory and interactive allowing people to come and help build it, including children and elderly and bestow on the people space for them to leave their mark.

PROJECT 4
Documentary Drama Film

• Handful of filmmakers invited to contribute parts to a film that mixes documentary and fiction to create both portraits as well as pauses, spaces for reflection. Incorporated into the narratives can be the lives of Kuki Ndiho’s orphans with other children around the world.
• A central location of the film can be the construction scenes, the under-construction, rebuilding, scenes of the above-mentioned projects.
• Also several triangles of scenes can also be woven in from various locations with Rwandan roots: New York, Brooklyn, Paris, Congo and elsewhere.